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JOURNAL # 2

JOURNAL # 2. What are some ways you could refuse the use of tobacco?. TOBACCO. Leaves of the tobacco plant Snuff – finely ground, smokeless tobacco that is chewed or held in the mouth or cheeks. Harmful chemicals in tobacco

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JOURNAL # 2

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  1. JOURNAL # 2 What are some ways you could refuse the use of tobacco?

  2. TOBACCO • Leaves of the tobacco plant • Snuff – finely ground, smokeless tobacco that is chewed or held in the mouth or cheeks. Harmful chemicals in tobacco • Nicotine – a drug that speeds up the heartbeat and affects the central nervous system • Carbon monoxide – poisonous, odorless gas produced when tobacco burns • Tar – a thick, oily, dark liquid that forms when tobacco burns. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssT32pdQwr4

  3. Effects of Tobacco on the Body Body Effects • Skin • Mouth, Teeth, Throat • Lungs • Heart • Brain • Stomach, Bladder, Colon • Blood Vessels

  4. Effects of Tobacco on the Body LUNGS WRINKLES

  5. Long-term Effects of Tobacco • Emphysema – a disease that occurs when the tiny air sacs in the lungs lose their elasticity, or ability to stretch • Lung cancer • Addiction – the body’s physical or mental need for a drug or other substance - shakiness, headache, sleeping problems, nervousness

  6. Reasons Teens may Smoke • Negative peer pressure – pressure you feel to go along with harmful behaviors or beliefs of your peers. • Imitation - copying the actions of someone you admire • Media – various methods of communicating information, including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the internet

  7. Tobacco Facts • With every puff of a cigarette, a smoker breathes in more than 4,000 different chemicals, including ammonia (a poisonous gas and a powerful toilet cleaner), arsenic (a potent rat poison), cyanide (a deadly ingredient in rat poison), acetone (a poisonous solvent and paint stripper), formaldehyde (used to preserve dead frogs), toluene (a poisonous industrial solvent), polonium-210 (a highly radioactive element) and carbon monoxide (a poisonous gas). Disturbing, but true!

  8. Tobacco Facts • Tobacco use kills more than 400,000 Americans each year……more than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents and AIDS combined. • Adult male and female smokers lose an average of 13 and 15 years of life respectively.

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